Dissipated Quotes

41 quotes by 39 authors

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so… — Robert Benchley
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained… — Sun Tzu
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that… — C.S. Lewis
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are… — Emile Durkheim
Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold… — Samuel Johnson
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope… — Maria Edgeworth
All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally… — Gaylord Nelson
I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in… — David Berkowitz
My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling… — Pattie Mallette
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings… — Thomas Jefferson
It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him… — Michel de Montaigne
Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I… — Doris Grumbach
Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in… — Thomas Merton
My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process… — Patti Smith
The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects. — Marshall McLuhan
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring… — William O. Douglas

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